... a sad realism of Peru that litter management and environmental education is very limited. I tried to learn how to make hippy bracelets and learn some Spanish and basically just had a really chilled out time. It was nice to relax and not worry about the next site or museum or place of interest for a while. Also to experience in a small way another type of nomadic life with my hippy friends. By all accounts I was missing nothing by not visiting Ica - my drive-through photos ...

Had an interesting sleep last night with the music going hard until the early hours, then just before 6am a guy was trying to get into his room just down a few doors down from us and bloody Caroline wasn't have a bar if it, probably due to the fact that was fast asleep.! We got up and had breakfast at 8.30 then caught a little 3 wheeler motorbike into the town of Ica for s/5. We got dropped off first at the Regional Museum of Ica and paid our s/7.50 each for the ...

... dirty and with a sand and bra full of sand, and anxiously awaited for my bus to arrive. The bus was 30 minutes late and I spent the next 4 hour bus ride anxiously awaiting my arrival back to Lima. We would be arriving well past midnight and I didn’t know what to expect in terms of taxis when I got there. Lima has a bit of a dangerous reputation so I was relieved to arrive and see the bus station staffed with security. I needn’t have worried, I found a taxi to ...

... money, to no avail, then trying to find another taxi – adamant that I’d been robbed. Then on after is more of a blur, and next thing I know I am outside of our hostel being handed my wallet by the taxi driver. A very confusing series of events, and one of my many drunken mysteries that will no doubt never be solved. Either, the taxi driver had a lucky night and was left with a very expensive gift by a kindly drunken backpacker who then accused him of ...